BONUS | Why Your New Year’s Resolutions Always Fail (with Dr. Rangan Chatterjee)
The Daily Stoic
Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures
4.5 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In today's bonus episode, Ryan and Dr. Rangan Chatterjee talk about why New Year’s resolutions usually fall apart and what actually works instead. They discuss why changing behavior is so hard, the key to making real change, and how most of us focus on the habit itself without understanding what it’s really doing for us.
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee is a physician, author, TV presenter and podcast host of Feel Better Live More where he talks with leading health experts who offer easy health life-hacks, expert advice and debunk common health myths. Check out Dr. Rangan Chatterjee’s latest book Make Change That Lasts.
You can follow him on Instagram @DrChatterjee, on X @Dr.ChatterjeeUK, and on YouTube @DrChatterjeeRangan
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation |
| 0:11.7 | designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. |
| 0:18.8 | Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of |
| 0:24.2 | history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, |
| 0:33.0 | and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. |
| 0:40.3 | For more, visit daily stoic.com. |
| 0:43.0 | What do you think about New Year's resolutions? |
| 0:58.5 | Because I think when people are thinking about change, they're like, I want to be a different |
| 1:01.8 | person in 2025. |
| 1:03.1 | Or I want to be a better person. |
| 1:04.3 | I want to be closer to the person I know I'm capable of being. |
| 1:07.6 | How do you think about resolutions? |
| 1:09.7 | Because the reality is a lot of people have that |
| 1:12.0 | sensation, that feeling, that desire, and then most resolutions go nowhere and people spend |
| 1:17.9 | another year is exactly the same person. I mean, I spent a long time thinking about this, |
| 1:21.4 | because why is it that, you know, depending which research study you read, 80 to 90% in news |
| 1:27.1 | resolutions have fallen by the wayside |
| 1:29.8 | by the start of February. |
| 1:31.6 | Right? |
| 1:31.8 | Okay. |
| 1:32.5 | And I've got 23 years of clinical experience. |
| 1:35.8 | So I've seen tens of thousands of patients. |
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